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# OramaSearch, a full-text search in your React application

**[Playful Programming](https://daily.dev/sources/playfulprogramming)** · [@puppo](https://daily.dev/puppo) · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A step-by-step guide to integrating OramaSearch, a client-side full-text search npm library, into a React application. Covers installation, creating a typed in-browser database with a schema, inserting data using insertMultiple, and performing searches with boost configuration. The implementation wraps Orama logic in a React Context with custom hooks (useOramaSetData and useOramaSearch), demonstrated through a searchable Italian cities app. Also covers multi-language support via stemmers.

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